In this post, I’ll look at CVE-2023-6241, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU that I reported to Arm on November 15, 2023 and was fixed in the Arm Mali driver version r47p0, which was released publicly on December 14, 2023. It was fixed in Android in the March security update. When exploited, this vulnerability allows a malicious Android app to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on the device. The vulnerability affects devices with newer Arm Mali GPUs that use the Command Stream Front...